Mitophagy and Alzheimer's Disease: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms

Jesse S. Kerr, Bryan A. Adriaanse, Nigel H. Greig, Mark P. Mattson, M. Zameel Cader, Vilhelm A. Bohr*, Evandro F. Fang

*Corresponding author af dette arbejde
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Abstract

Neurons affected in Alzheimer's disease (AD) experience mitochondrial dysfunction and a bioenergetic deficit that occurs early and promotes the disease-defining amyloid beta peptide (Aβ) and Tau pathologies. Emerging findings suggest that the autophagy/lysosome pathway that removes damaged mitochondria (mitophagy) is also compromised in AD, resulting in the accumulation of dysfunctional mitochondria. Results in animal and cellular models of AD and in patients with sporadic late-onset AD suggest that impaired mitophagy contributes to synaptic dysfunction and cognitive deficits by triggering Aβ and Tau accumulation through increases in oxidative damage and cellular energy deficits; these, in turn, impair mitophagy. Interventions that bolster mitochondrial health and/or stimulate mitophagy may therefore forestall the neurodegenerative process in AD.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftTrends in Neurosciences
Vol/bind40
Udgave nummer3
Sider (fra-til)151-166
Antal sider16
ISSN0166-2236
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2017

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